Famous Ulverstonians include Norman Birkett, who represented Britain at the Nuremberg Trials ; Maude Green, the mother of Rock and Roll music legend, Bill Haley ; Norman Gifford, an England test cricketer ; Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier awarded with the Victoria Cross ; and comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame.

Maude was born in Gibraltar into a military family ; his father was Sir Frederick Francis Maude – a general who had been awarded the Victoria Cross in 1855 during the Crimean War, and who is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

On 27 June 2002, The Daily Telegraph carried a letter from the CDA, signed by Mike Smith, attacking the Conservative Party and its Chairman Francis Maude for " the sleaze, double-dealing, arrogance, incompetence, Europhilia, indifference and drift with which the party is still associated.

Francis Chavasse ( later Bishop of Liverpool and founder of St Peter's College, Oxford ) and Edith Jane Chavasse ( née Maude ) on 9 November 1884 at 36 New Inn Hall Street, Oxford.

Chavasse Park in Liverpool city centre was named in honour of the Chavasse family ; Francis ( 2nd Bishop of Liverpool ) and his twin sons Christopher Maude Chavasse ( an Olympic athlete and later Bishop of Rochester ), and Noel Godfrey Chavasse.

The incumbent Paymaster General is Francis Maude, who is also the Minister for the Cabinet Office.

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* Francis Maude ( 2005 – 2007 )

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude ( born 4 July 1953 ) is a British politician.

Precious few I would guess — including Mr Francis Maude.

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Francis Stuart ( 1902 – 2000 ) started his literary life as a protégé of W. B. Yeats and married Isuelt, daughter of Maude Gonne.

He was elected as the Member of Parliament for the West Midlands constituency of North Warwickshire at the 1992 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent Francis Maude, and lost his seat to the Conservative candidate at the 2010 general election.

From February to September 2000, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Francis Maude MP.

The antihero of House of Cards is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, Francis Urquhart played by Ian Richardson.

* John Francis Ashley Erskine, Lord Erskine, GCSI, GCIE, was the Conservative and Unionist MP for Weston-super-Mare and Brighton and assistant Government whip.

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC ( born 12 May 1944 ), is a British Conservative politician and administrator.

This had been a safe Conservative seat but its sitting MP Shaun Woodward ( who had worked with Cameron on the 1992 election campaign ) had " crossed the floor " to join the Labour Party ; newspapers claimed Cameron and Woodward had " loathed each other ", although Cameron's biographers Francis Elliott and James Hanning describe them as being " on fairly friendly terms ".

Matthew Francis Parris ( born 7 August 1949 in Johannesburg, South Africa ) is a UK-based journalist and former Conservative politician.

William Francis " Bill " Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC, DL ( 1 June 1913 – 17 August 2007 ) was a British Conservative Party politician, army officer and journalist ; he is to date the only person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.

Anthony Francis Arbour JP ( born 30 August 1945 ), commonly known as Tony Arbour, is a British Conservative Party politician, a Richmond councillor and member of the London Assembly representing South West London.

It was created on 27 January 1938 for the Conservative politician Sir Francis Ganzoni, 1st Baronet.

His second son Sir Francis Edward Fremantle was a Conservative politician.

Nicholas Francis St Aubyn, known as Nick St Aubyn ( born 19 November 1955 ) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP ( 17 December 1845 – 22 September 1927 ) was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1962 Francis Sejersted was president of the Norwegian Students ' Association representing the student wing of the Conservative Party of Norway, a party has been affiliated with since.

It was created in 1846 for the Conservative politician Lord Francis Egerton.

Wright has also used Bloggingheads. tv to conduct interviews with, among others, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama about his book America at the Crossroads ; the Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg on his book The Accidental Empire ( about the history of the settlements ); the weapons expert Jeffrey Lewis ; the Washington Post columnist Joel Achenbach on an article of his about global-warming skeptics ; and Andrew Sullivan on his book The Conservative Soul.

Richard Francis Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey Kt, PC ( born 29 January 1942 ), usually known as Sir Richard Needham, is a British Conservative politician.

Ganzoni was the only son of Sir Francis Ganzoni, a barrister and Conservative MP for Ipswich who was created Baron Belstead in 1938, by his wife Gwendolen Gertrude Turner, daughter of Arthur Turner, of Ipswich.

During the 1983 election campaign, Conservative Foreign Secretary Francis Pym was asked by an A-level student named Andy Davis about the implications of the Conservatives winning the election with a landslide victory.

George Francis Hagerup ( 22 January 1853 in Horten, Norway – 8 February 1921 in Kristiania ) was a Norwegian law professor, diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party.

* Francis Baring, 6th Baron Northbrook ( born 1954 ), British peer and Conservative politician

Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, GCSI, GCIE, PC, KStJ ( 21 November 1870 – 9 March 1947 ), known as the Honourable Stanley Jackson during his playing career, was an English cricketer, soldier and Conservative Party politician.

He was the father of Conservative MP Francis Maude.